In Meridies coursing is open to all breeds unless the sire owners restrict it. The reason being, that some pet owners take advantage of the fact pets are allowed and they do not porpelry care for the pets on site (clean up, shelter, confine,respect others property). This sheds a bad light on the Coursing Group. That is one of the reasons coursing is having diffuctly in our fair kingdom.
Catrin Skynith former Houndsmaster Meridies > >Within the Middle Kingdom and based on the charter I obtained in >Northshield, any hound that chases a bag can do so at any event where >coursing is held, that is any such 'dog' can be a member of the coursing >college and is eligible for, in the Middle, an Award of Paws (not sure >what ((if)) Northshield will establish for canine awards for the Gryphon >pack and the coursing college... in the Middle 'rescued' greys only are >eligible for the Huntly Pack. In Northshield I expanded that to include >and period sight hound breed or cross that was a 'rescued' animal... >adopted from shelters, rescue groups etc. The idea of the packs is >partly to promote rescue and I admit that aspect is limited to the >period breeds. But the colleges are open to all and all are WELCOME. >Unfortunately for I'm sure good reason to be accepted at all, the breeds >are more limited re coursing that what it was when Master Baron Gordan >founded coursing in the Middle Kingdom so long ago. \ >Please don't hesitate to course. Northshield needs houndmasters and you >need not own a period breed to be one. I cannot run on the field but I >can still teach! I am sorting many things in the next month and hope to >unearth the entire list of e addys for folks interested to some extent >in coursing. I hope you are one of them. The more the merrier! Perhaps >you can think of an alternative basis for the other breeds. The reason >behind simply coursing for me, was always finding interested folks and >thus homes for hounds where there were none before. The last stat I >heard was that there are on average in this country alone 200 hounds >per day destroyed on average. I think it in appropriate for a hound >master to take any official position regarding greyhound racing, and >this allows many walks of folk to set aside their differences and work >together for coursing and rescue irregardless... I will say that there >are responsible breeders who place all their hounds in homes after they >are done working, and there are 'no kill 'tracks so we know it can work >that way too.... The dream has always had room for diversity. It may be >that you could establish a local baronial, shire etc. pack (minimum of >three) that have even more open criteria. That is what Rivenstar has >done. The members of the Huntly or Gryphon packs are period breeds. I >hope that will not discourage anyone in bearing forth the banner for the >Dream! > In Service, > Nina Mirovna Korsakova >Tarkhanum Khanate Argent Fox >Viscountess IV Northshield >Huntly, Gryphon, Rivenstar Packs >former Middle Kingdom and Northshield Houndmaster > _________________________________________________________________ Don�t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Coursing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
